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title: Sofa Plugin keywords: [“sofa”] description: sofa access shenyu gateway

Description

• The sofa plugin is a plugin that converts the Http protocol into the sofa protocol, and it is also the key to the gateway to realize the sofa generalization call.
• The sofa plugin needs to cooperate with metadata to realize the call of Sofa.

Plugin Setting

• Add related dependencies and enable plugin, please refer to: Quick start with Sofa .

• Sofa client access, please refer to: Sofa Proxy .

• Set selector and rule, please refer to: Selector And Rule Config .

Metadata

Each sofa interface method, will correspond to a metadata, when the sofa application client access to the ShenYu gateway, will be automatically registered, can be viewed in the shenyu-admin background management system of the BasicConfig --> Metadata management.

• AppName: specifies the name of the application to which the metadata belongs.

• MethodName: the name of the method to call.

• Path: http request path.

• PathDescribe: the description of the path is easy to view.

• ParamsType: the parameters are separated by commas (,) in the order of interface parameter types.

• RpcExpand: other configurations of the sofa interface, which support the JSON format, are as follows:

{"loadbalance":"hash","retries":3,"timeout":-1}

• Interface: The fully qualified class name of the sofa interface.

• RpcType：choose sofa.